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Hi Gang,

It's been awhile since the last one of these. Sorry I haven't done much posting or feedbacks from on the mp3 boards lateIy. I have had my brother-in-law staying with us for a week. He sleeps in the next room and goes to bed about 7 hours before I do So I don't blast music, imagine that lol...However he's a great guy.

Haven't been too active the past few weeks either, whatever it is that I have whether it be The Meniere's Disease or something else it just gets worse as time goes on.
My balance is just awful and it now it even takes affect when I'm sitting.
I just cant figure which is my favorite..the aliment the frustration, stress or the depression?
Well enough of the that fun stuff!


Okay Talk Music

When I feel strong enough I have been working on my new song. I started this song in 2003 and put it aside as I could never finish it.
Anyway while I was working on it now I decided to take the old analog video camera and record some.
I started already. I want and intend to post the process of me recording the song and make video clips then post them on the Video Forum here...

It will be in parts/stages ranging anywhere from 2 minutes to 10 minutes a video.
So Part 1 may be introduction and Part 2 may be guitar Part 3 Bass etc... Part 4 Drums... etc....
Along the way I'll be doing and talking about song structures, sound, equipment, arrangements, instruments, playing techniques, recording techniques, mixing.
I guess ALL of it My non musician friend who shops my music and helps make decisions should hopefully be involved. He brings my music to a real heavy weight so the planning surrounding the project is always interesting...

I just have to get a convertor box to somehow get analog unto my computer. Man do I miss that great digital video camera we used for the Brooklyn video.
So hopefully if I can do it all I will have that up as soon as possible, I'm trying but I try to work any chance I can when i'm feeling decent enough to.
Life is funny! the more my ears develop and my timing and all skills improve the poorer and sicker I become



Okay Update Substudio Demo Services

My old friends are coming around again! as well we have some new ones!

Okay when we make the new site we have some new additions.
Aside from my good buddy Doug playing Keyboards and Trumpets..

I have a fiddle/violin player who has agreed to work with me. This guy is off the charts good. He is working on one of my songs now an instrumental.
He is very reasonabley priced and we hit it off in 2 seconds...He will be doing full string arrangemets as well. I will have more info on him on the site when it's ready. He is currently working with some musicians I greatly admire Bela & V Wooten
Actually have 2 players my friend Dave who does wonderful blues and more has offered to participate

Beside my friend Chello lending his vocal and R&B productions to Substudio.
Guess who called me????
My friend Ruben Gomez! He is back and wants to get over here and work again.
I'm so happy about that it is such a great help to me to have these guys either here or available online.
Ruben is back from reunion touring with Menudo yes I did say Menudo..
He is the one who sings my song "Closer"

So all the guys who work with me on my stuff will now do the work for hire for demos... that means you guys! lol...
So for people who want to put some add ons they can pick & choose for there demo.
I have some friends here and will be adding there vocal talents to the service as well
Maureen Fichten for one and hopefuly we get Sue Lainey as well as others.

And of course anyone who wants to contribute in this regard feel free to email or message me...I still have my list of you guys and gals here.

Okay- I keep falling to right tonite literally so I gotta go now! (too the left )

See ya & thanks

Hey Mike:


So sorry to hear that you're not feeling better. Man, I wish there was something I could do.....

The series of videos you have planned is a GREAT idea! It will be very instructional and, knowing you, very entertaining at the same time. On top of that, you're centering it around a new song. I suspect it will be incredibly helpful to us "do it yourselfers". Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Great news too about the new people you are getting on board. What a collection of talent!

Wishing all the best for you - in music and in health....

Scott

Thanks so much Scott.....

We will talk on the phone and laugh non stop that always makes me feel better

I wish I had the good camera and someone else shooting besides me...
I wanred to get close ups and have it move along like that I can't do that and do everything else. But tha's what i always do anyway

Thanks Scott both musically and personally

Sub...Hey dude...sorry about the health stuff....I was talking about you the other day.....were your ears ringing?....good stuff of course.....I will always be glad I got to know you....You're a "great" talent....such a wealth of music knowledge.....you have....the best part is you are always willing to share it.....look forward to the videos....have a nice weekend....Bob

Hi T-Bob

Thanks old buddy... Everything is difficult so it just adds on to it.
I have to purchase a converter box to get the analog footage, it's expensive of course but every single idea in my head is expensive.

Had the greatest expierence today with the wonderful world of computers and 2 day technology...
My drive had an error and lost all my music... ALL of it.

Did I mention all of it.

Hope you get better sub!

I try to breath in something with a lot of steam when I don't feel good.
Many showers in a day.
That probably does'nt help.

I wish I could do something too.

Anyways, wish you well!

Matt

Hi Sub,

Havn't been around awhile myself. We've had two deaths in the family in the past two months - one of my sisters and my sister-in-law - both in their 50's. Course they were both sick a long time before they passed so I've been on the road to Alabama, Atlanta, and back, trying to spend time with them before they passed.

Anyway, I had dizzyness spell for two weeks between their deaths. Went to the doctor and he said it could go away on it's own and it finally did. I hope they find out what's wrong with you. It sure sets you back on your music or at least it did me.

The AMA, not worth a fiddle fer nothin' most of the time, admits that 82% of diseases are diet-related disorders. Since crops are carried away from fields, instead of recycled back to the soil, the minerals they take out of the soil get depleted. The food today has less mineral content than it did in, say 1963. You'd have to eat 8 oranges today, e.g., to get the nutrients of one eaten in 1963. See Robert Barefoot for calcium research.
Calcium deficiency is the cause of over 147 diseases, kidney stones, osteoporosis, the more famous ones, and is touted as a preventive and even curative of cancer (Nobel Prize winner Paul Warburg). Kidney stones are calcium drawn from the bones and rest of the body due to dietary deficiency of calcium.
Copper deficiency leaves tissues without elasticity, leading to aneurysm, aortic aneurysm being the heart attack so many suffer.
Deficiency in chromium and vanadium are diabetes related, but it is mainly caused by the overdose of sugars, white fiberless flour, white fiberless sugar, and a 60% increase in the last decade of the 20th century, after the advent of high fructose corn syrup in the 1980's. See Dr. Joel Wallach, the Mineral Doctor for lots of research on minerals.
Get more minerals into your diet and see if you feel better. Steaming vegetables retains 90% of the nutrients. Boiling them washes them away, and microwaving destroys 90% of nutrient value. No wonder people eat and are still hungry. And sick.

Hi Matt,

Thanks pal

It's funny you said that cuase sitting on my table is a steamer/ inhaler
I often fill it with bottled water and grab a small towel and do a steam.
It does wonders for the sinuses which we all suffer from
It doesn't solve my problem but it helps ya feel better in general which is always good.

Thanks Matt

You lost all your music? You mean every song you've ever done? Did you get it back? Whatever you lost, that's terrible. There are recovery services but there are also some very knowledgeable people on the net, too that might could help. I hope you got it back and sorry about the health. I just got diagnosed with gallstones after several years of missed diagnosis for severe pain. I kept telling them! And my mother says "You're not a doctor!" And I said "Sometimes, I swear I think I know more than they do." About my own problems, anyway.

Hi Sub,
Do you mean ALL YOUR MUSIC EVER?????
Oh my goodness!!
What was it doing all in one drive?

Bill's right, there may be a computer recovery service who can get it off that drive still. Talk around and see what you can find.

And I hate it that your health is still so lousy. I wonder if one of those holistic, naturopathic sorts of doctors would be able to find anything?? Sometimes they're great... if you can find a good one, which is hard.

Anyway thanks for speaking up!! Always good to hear from you!
Let me know right away if you hear from Sue? Miss her bunches!!

Linda

I'm sorry you're dizzy Buddy!! That really sucks, I can't imagine. :-(

Herbie

Hey Duke

Thanks man! yes I will keep the drive and try to recover... then i will smash it to pieces and toss it.

Doctors can be real bafoons if that is how you spell it.. I have had my problem for about 11 years now and it only gets worse. 21 doctors so far No Help!
Now with no job or insurance or disability benefits because of this wonderful condition life is just a bowl of cherries... It's a good thing a great paying music career is so easy.... oh yeah right!

Thanks Bud

Hi Lin

Yes all of my songs over the past 6 years!

See when I talk with computer geeks and tech freaks I would like to hear what they are saying but all I can think about is my hands aroung there necks lol...
See technology changes sooo fast now that [naughty word removed] just dont work that easy or great!

I took out a reel to reel tape from 20 years ago and every piece of music was on there perfect.

With digital I have lost parts and songs I recorded last month.
Friggin DVD's and CD's are fall of surprises too... Travan drives and data storage crap! Lost a ton of stuff too weird errors and dropped technology...

I love when someone says "What are using"? system 5.1?
Oh man your crazy, that's why, that's crap you need 5.2

Okay so you were an idiot too when you bought 5.1 right?

My computer was full and always telling me "you are out of space"
I have 260 gigs of music on it!

So we added another hard drive and it worked fine.. there is no time for me to render all my songs and song ideas and save them as wave files. I wont save wav's in fragments..

There were people coming in that night and i can't turn down anything even when my condition is pretty bad. So i took my stuff to the other drive as not to risk anyone elses.. It was there fine.. then bang! I'll go through the much wasted time nonsense of trying to restore it all. No time to back stuff up it takes a while.. needed the equipment...

I'm actually not too upset as i know longer have to worry about losing my stuff toi the digital world.. It's already lost! worries are over!

I love (naughty word removed)

Hi Herb

Yes imagine you wake up and your in a canoe or row boat everday....
Your parked with your car in gear and your foot on the brake.. the car next to you backs out, you slam down on your brake thinking you moved!
I explained that in an MD's office once and they looked at me like I had two heads huh?

Neurological or vestibular inner ear??? will I ever be able to afford to figure it out?

Thanks bud!

On a better note....

I just got word that my niece has a great hook with an organization that places music and represents artists. writers, producers, musician, managers etc...
This goes down tomorrow!

I sent 2 short Cd's hitting them with mutiple styles of music.....

Over here we just don't talk about helping each other we actually do it!

Along with my songs I submitted one of our members songs that I produced as a surprise to him.


Here we go again!

Mike,

Sounds like you have the same exact thing as my wife. She also has extreme tightness in the lower back of the head muscles, which seems to contribute to it all. Close to 8 years now and most doctors just want to treat it as an anxiety disorder!! She has gone down the inner ear, vestibular, sinus, alegry, multiple MRI's paths, etc......

Yesterday she went for a steroid injection in the head (finally)to see if that can "loosen" that region up. I'll let you know how it goes.

It is hard for me to empathize when she says she feels like she is on a rocking boat -- how can you know what that feels like without experiencing it? Anyway, our hope is to find a doctor that says "Oh yea! I know what that is!"

Good luck and I let her see this thread so she knows she is not alone, at least.

Kevin

EDIT: Sending the disk to a recovery service should get most of your data back!

Hi Kevin,

Thanks! wow I also have the tightness and sorness in my back and neck. I get it way to often for someone who doesn't work physically anymore. Although I'm also aware that if you dont move much or are always in a chair it has to contribute to a sore neck & back...

It's nice that you shared the thread with your wife I hope she can get back to normal. And not loose anymore time (years) to this problem.
It is a loss... At one point I was in the house locked in the studio for a year without leaving.

Anxiety will take over with this problem. when you are uncertain of your balance and how you feel it will have you afraid to try anything.

If I find out anything that will help her I will contact you in a heartbeat!

Thanks and best wishes

Hiya Mike,
Hey, it's probably too late now, but, next time you buy a computer... buy a Mac? (Or is that what ate your stuff?)

We got one this year for the kids, and it's everything the ads say and more. You'll never go back. When (haha) I can upgrade my laptop I'm getting a Mac then too.

Gosh, I would be weeping and wailing if I'd just lost six years of work. <-- there, I'll do some for you.

BEST of luck on those 2 CDs!! I hope they go places! And that you stop being dizzy. Somehow. And loosen those muscles. And everything good I can think of for you.

Hang in there, man!

Linda

Thanks Linda

I have both a Mac & a PC we have had Mac's here since The Quadra 650 Through the Towers through the G series...
Tripp used to work on Next computers a ways back.
We used MAc for so long when there was less support and fellow users..

Believe it or not the Mac is up here connected to the internet I'm on it now.
The PC is in the studio, should be the other way around but that is not practical for people without money. Everything about Mac costs you more.. Everything!

Many with vast knowledge will tell ya otherwise but common sense goes the other way. When everyone is using Mac then it will be cheapier and an easier sitution.
If you follow my drift..

Hopefully that will be soon..
Because I LOVE MACS and they blow the doors off of IBM


Still Dizzy!

On those 2 Cd's
I have a quick question Who is Chris Daltrey or Datrey... a singer maybe?

Thanks

Chris Daltrey, Sub, he's one of them A I singers...

Hey Mike. Sorry to hear about your hard drive crash. That's a nightmare. Definitely hang onto the drive. There are places who can retrieve the data, but of course it costs $$.

Maybe you are referring to Chris Daughtry?
He is a singer who got booted off of American Idol last season I think. He has a very cool voice.
I don't know if this Amazon link will work, but there are samples of his songs there.

http://www.amazon.com/Daughtry/dp/B...mp;s=music&qid=1180617530&sr=8-1

Your Arizona bro,

John

Hey Mike,
TOTALLY understand on the Macs and costing more $$$$$. Yeah. Someday...
(I LOVE their new ad campaign now with the Mac guy--he's the perfect actor for it--and I hope they sell LOTS MORE MACS!)

Anyway:
Chris Daughtry!!!
He left American Idol 4th place I believe, BUT HE IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL ARTIST FROM LAST SEASON. He is doing VERY well selling LOTS of records, and if he wants one of your songs, buddy, DO IT!!!!!

He also sounds GREAT and is one of the coolest sounds out there right now. On his way up for sure.

They had him back to perform on the AI Final just a couple of weeks ago. I like his stuff. I haven't bought an album yet, but that just cuz' of $$... gotta feed the kids, you know...
:-D ("disposable income"? what IS that?) LOL.

Linda

PS - If you look at that Amazon link -- Slash is featured on one of his tracks, man. You're in good company. Crossing my fingers for you, Sub!!

PPS - Ooops, Carrie Underwood has sold more than Daughtry at 6 million albums. BUT I think Daughtry is not far behind, and coming up fast. (Plus she's country and he's mainstream rock.)